Illegal alien criminals dumped back on street

Federal immigration officials allowed scores of violent criminals — some ordered deported decades ago — to walk away from Harris County Jail despite the inmates' admission to local authorities that they were in the country illegally, a Houston Chronicle investigation found.

Although most of the inmates released from custody were accused of minor crimes, hundreds of convicted felons — including child molesters, rapists and drug dealers — also managed to avoid deportation after serving time in Harris County's jails, according to the Chronicle review, which was based on documents filed over a period of eight months starting in June 2007, the earliest immigration records available.

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So much for the idea that government is institutionally racist.

It would seem common sense to me that if you have a repeat criminal, you do everything you can to keep him or her away from society at large -- and if deportation becomes a weapon in your arsenal, use it!